Is This An Old Theory?

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oceantracks

Temporal Novice
Something I was thinking...

In the future, if time travel is realized, I would think that those who travelled back in time would be the equivalent of our astronauts today...exploring time rather than space.

They would have to train for it, they would have to come prepared with time appropriate clothes, money, etc and relative knowledge and familiarity with the time period itself.....and the act of time travel would be predominantly to study history first hand. Imagine being able not to just read about the JFK assassination, but to be in Dallas that fateful day. Students of the future would be watching live video records taken by those who had travelled back...of historic moments in world history.

You would have travelers renting apartments for a few months ....staying amongst us and melting into society as they watched whatever event they came to study unfold. And then they would be gone. Since they were "new" in town...and then...gone....no one would really miss them. They would keep to themselves.

And, like space, there would probably be limitations on how far back (or forward) in time they could travel...just as NASA can't get an astronaut to Venus yet, perhaps the travelers from the future could not make it back to the 1600s....yet.

I'm wondering if this is an old idea and if so where it's been written about, because it seems much more reasonable to me than just random people popping up all over the place.

Thoughts?

Tom
 
Have you ever walked pass someone, a total stranger somewhere and you felt an immediate disturbing feeling that the person you just walked by, may be someone who is from another time? bad vibes and all? All of us have this 'natural intuition' gridlocked in our minds of how we perceive time and place on someone.

In most cases, people ignore this feeling as like it is an everyday routine.
 
You would have travelers renting apartments for a few months ....staying amongst us and melting into society as they watched whatever event they came to study unfold.
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Paid for by what ? Are the time travel equivalent of NASA also going to be in the business of forging counterfeit historical money for their travellers ?

I mean, that apartment will have to be paid for. So will food for the time traveller. And his rental car, and gas for it. And come to think of it, a driving licence will have to be forged too. Hmm.....so we're going to end up with one massive illegal forgery operation.

Will Congress decide that it's OK to forge money and driving licenses, etc for time travellers ? Let's face it......enough time travellers with their inflow of forged money could upset the economy.

The actual economics of time travel ( i.e day to day money ) is one of those issues seldom if ever discussed.
 
i found it odd. i wrote an interestinf bit, now it's not there. i will make an assumtion that the individuals all are aware of the plane trip in 1973. a plane left nyc to london. the concept was to use an atomic clock to see how close the algorithm to judge time travel would work. there are odd things with this. 1, the experiment was perfect. 2, the plane went into the future 40 billionths of a second. the exact answer that was predicted. ..... the odd things now. this meansthis shows, that traveling with the flow of the earths rotation you go into the future. which may, mean, that the reverse is true. i have not found this test. however, the plane was moving at roughly 350 mph. here we go, the i.s.s., moves at 17500mph, and the direction is with the direction of the earths rotation. so the i.s.s., is going to the future,this is roughly 50 times the speed of the plane. so in the same time perion, 3 hours the i.s.s. goes (50 x 40,000,000,000)2 tenths of a secod into the future(please feel free to correct errors). well this is really simple, at the end of 12 years how far into the future do you think the "computers "are???? i believe its on the order of 35 hours???
as i stated i may be off slightly with the numbers, but the question you should be asking is evidence, the computers are not allowed to be turned off. the man whom wrote the software for them was not allowed to access the computers. oh and each day, the computers upload data from earth, and send that data back to earth to "check" for errors. ok lets play ball. i will check back, within the week, perhaps sooner, its all relative, remember its a forum for ideas. oh and please try increasing the spin of the gravity well, the rotating "plane has limits", but the mass can spin very fast if it is massive enough.
david john aka njvikings1 <font color="black"> [/COLOR]
 
oceantracks,

If we accept that the Many Worlds Intrerpretation of QM is incorrect then time travel to the past, if it is even possible in such a world, poses insurrmountable problems. "History" in such a world becomes irrelevent - it can always be changed. The problem then becomes one of what is the meaning of memory. If one remembers an event in the past but that event can be accessed by a theoretically infinite number of time travelers who can change it calls seriously into question the very meaning of memory. There's no such thing as a witness to an event who has absdolutely no affect on the event. I've talked about this many times before. A time traveler who just wants to witness a historical event travels to the time period involved and just waits. When the time comes s/he walks over from wherever he is to see what occurs. That event in itself causes other people to alter their spacetime paths even if it is just to walk aound the TT as he walks over to be a witness. That altered spacetime pathway of one person eventually changes the timing of future events for every person on the planet. The entire history of the planet is changed.

One insignificant event, a change in a person's spacetime pathway changes the entire history of the world. Yet someone had a "memory" of a different outcome - otherwise why would they send a TT to witness past history?

This doesn't describe our reality. We can conclude that either time travel to the past never occurs or that time travel to the past is limited to the frame of time that starts with the spacetime coordinate when the gadget is first activated, which hasn't as yet occured. The latter situation still doesn;t answer the question of the meaning of memory.


Time travel to the pat in a non-MWI world is not a simple matter. Time travel to the pat in a MWI world is a bit more satisfactory, historywise, if you give up the issue of self-determination. Neither situation is particularrly pallatable.
 
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